Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Idiotic Trash Talking in Pittsburgh
Ever wonder why so many companies shy away from Pittsburgh as a place to start a business? One of the main reasons has to be the obstreperous and in-your-face public unions with their “who cares about the City as long as we get what we want” attitude. The same unions City Council fawns over and cossets endlessly.
The President of the garbage workers has just driven home how completely out of touch the City’s unions are. He is quoted as saying, “We intend to walk out July 8 unless we have a contract or at least some movement toward a contract. I think there’ll be a lot of national attention on Pittsburgh, with the All-Star game here, and I couldn’t think of a better time.”
That’s just marvelous. Let’s show all the visitors and the national TV audiences how filthy and smelly a City can get during the hot summer when garbage isn’t collected. Pittsburgh already has enough trouble dealing with its image as a result of years of kowtowing to unions, especially the government worker unions. Now the garbage collectors want to demonstrate to the world how utterly spineless elected officials in the City have become when it comes to dealing with the unions.
But as someone once observed, people get the government they deserve. The City’s voters back the unions even to their own detriment as taxpayers and jobseekers. It will take a very courageous leader indeed to step up and say this race to the bottom cannot continue. Maybe, just maybe, some voters will hear the message.
However, as long as the Governor signals his willingness to bail out the City with state tax dollars, the City government will sit on its hands and put off taking the necessary steps to address union control of the City.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06157/695957-53.stm
The President of the garbage workers has just driven home how completely out of touch the City’s unions are. He is quoted as saying, “We intend to walk out July 8 unless we have a contract or at least some movement toward a contract. I think there’ll be a lot of national attention on Pittsburgh, with the All-Star game here, and I couldn’t think of a better time.”
That’s just marvelous. Let’s show all the visitors and the national TV audiences how filthy and smelly a City can get during the hot summer when garbage isn’t collected. Pittsburgh already has enough trouble dealing with its image as a result of years of kowtowing to unions, especially the government worker unions. Now the garbage collectors want to demonstrate to the world how utterly spineless elected officials in the City have become when it comes to dealing with the unions.
But as someone once observed, people get the government they deserve. The City’s voters back the unions even to their own detriment as taxpayers and jobseekers. It will take a very courageous leader indeed to step up and say this race to the bottom cannot continue. Maybe, just maybe, some voters will hear the message.
However, as long as the Governor signals his willingness to bail out the City with state tax dollars, the City government will sit on its hands and put off taking the necessary steps to address union control of the City.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06157/695957-53.stm
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If the City's refuse union members walk out and there is no contract - why not hire an outside refuse group to collect the garbage. They are much more organized and do an exception job in the suburbs. This could be the onus for the city to eliminate their own "waste"!
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